Easter Cupcakes

My mom got these darling cupcake liners and picks last year on clearance and I could not wait to use them this year!

Just a simple vanilla cake mix.

And vanilla buttercream frosting.

I took the entire tier of cupcakes outside for the kids to enjoy.

And boy did they ever.

and we found a snail while we were out there.

And then it started getting dark and buggy so we went inside for showers and baths.

The End

Easter Sugar Cookies

This year, once again, I made Easter sugar cookies.

I had new food coloring.  This is strictly for icings and frosting and is a "gel coloring."

It's much more bold.

I was going for a soft yellow and plopped some gel into the royal icing and got pumpkin orange.

So, lesson learned...a little bit goes a long way.

Guess how long these lasted?

About one day.

Guess how many I ate?

6

I also saved a few to take over to my in-laws for Easter dinner.

But we didn't even get into them because I'd also made a strawberry cake and my SIL had made cheesecake.

So...My Man took them to work with him and shared with his amigos!

Pinterest Recipe: Strawberry Carrots

Pinterest, once again, was my motivation behind this little trick.

Simply drop a couple drops of orange food coloring into some melted white chocolate and dip strawberries in.

Then lay on wax paper and drizzle a little more on top.

I think the Pinterest picture was a bit more "lifelike" but my kids fell for it.

They gobbled them right up.

I put a few on each child's plate at dinner and it wasn't until dinner was almost over that #3 said, 

"Hey Mom, these strawberries look like carrots."

I looked at him, sure that he was kidding, he wasn't.

Then another child said,

"Hey, that's funny.  They're really just strawberries."

And another piped in,

"You just put orange stuff on the strawberries to make them look like carrots."

(Did you kids actually think you were eating carrots?  And that carrots taste like that?  Do you live in a box?  Are you crazy?)

I met My Man's eyes over their innocent (clueless) heads.  We exchanged a look that telepathically said,

"I swear I did not smoke crack when I was pregnant." 

and

"I swear I did not smoke weed and damage my little sperms."

And then, we just laughed.

And My Man commented that I was so sneaky and clever.